You may also see people refer to the general population as “NPCs.” When someone says something like, “Messing with the NPCs” or “There are too many NPCs here,” they’re making themselves the main character in the real world.You might call someone an NPC if they tend to repeat the same thing over and over again, or if they don’t react when you say or do something unexpected.

When someone calls a real life person an NPC, they’re equating them to a non-playable character in a video game. In real life, an NPC is someone who doesn’t think objectively.